In the July financial analyst meeting, Ray Ozzie was asked:
QUESTION: Ray, I wonder if you would comment on Amazon's EC2 beta offering, and is there any sort of a timeline you could give us of when Microsoft may have a similar offering?
His response:
RAY OZZIE: Amazon has several services under the category of Amazon Web Services, Elastic Computing, EC2, S3, which is a storage thing, SQS is a queuing service. These are it's really great, because it's essentially showing the industry and today it's mainly showing primarily showing Web 2.0 startups that there might actually be something there with regard to this utility computing model. Whether it's the right set of services exactly, or whether the way that they've designed them is exactly what matches the needs of those potential developers, there are some questions. But I think they've done the industry a service by beginning to open people's eyes to the potential.
I don't have any announcements at this point in time. But directionally, I think you could see in my presentation that we believe very heavily in this utility computing fabric concept; it's the only way, even internally focused, it's the only way we can get scale amongst all the properties we run internally. And I think it just makes sense to offer those services to developers and to enterprise customers over time.
I'm glad he sees the light, it will be interesting to see what Microsoft and the others offer up. I'm expecting Google to launch something like this soon as they seem like the company that has horizontal scaling nailed (next to Amazon of course).
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